Eric Schmidt Will Take Your Questions Now

4/17/2013 7:35AM

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt addresses a range of subjects -- including the company's core belief in Android as an open source religion, and how Facebook Home exemplifies that -- during his appearance at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference on Tuesday.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... the ... your spouse ... in February ball Congress spoke with Samsung and they downplayed the notion of tension between themselves and go over and write but ... the facts are that I think according to Gartner in the fourth quarter they shipped forty percent of the global Android ... devices and they are really ... the only Android OEM making any significant ... money off of selling Android devices so ... do you think that that dynamic is a healthy one for the Android ecosystem and what ... if anything were to go to to ... ALM change that or address ... for some lots of time with Samsung and I can confirm is that ... that that press coverage of the tension is often corrupt ... we've heard of it was to put them in fact we just recently met with them in California ... I've been that ... the South Korea and by the Ministry of a South Korea's many times to talk to them ... um they have literally hundreds of millions of the phones phones coming on the in form ... um and the value in profits to them are very high so ... I don't think you can see much of a change there ... obviously we want a competitive market is obviously one of many competitors is possible ... indeed Motorola's the competitors are others ... but the Samsung relationship has turned out to be a defining one ... aam and I will always be appreciative of their decision very early ... yet to be a very very significant makeup really tough decision of the time to Android which would help the financial ... is it healthy that very few phone makers I mean we talk about this to be billion phones ... I'm people to be making ... these ... you know to billion in two billion phones in the next year they can be making money doing and while these are capitalists ... um and you spent time with him South Koreans they're very good capitalists ... some quite sure that all of these firms will make money sometimes you know us enough invest into the market ... um but ... if you tell me there's a billion billion consumer opportunity ... for handsets that are going to help define their world that are so important in the Western press today ... people will make money to make money by the window for what ... now Mr. Lin won ... Steve Markham BusinessInsider ... 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Dish may else know when you think about a no no no don't buy when it ran as a oppressing your your answer the question of if the answer is no answers that you may not be renewed next up a next best ... thing a very good ... when he went something on public gets a prized people just come with you can do ... with in the existing Android framework and still use Google's services this is call this this is called what the answer is about ... I said earlier with commonly happy that people are sending an art in all these lines so you don't look at that as anything other his successor happy that it's all open source ... last time I checked you can have ... like half open source ... he was going for a few days have rules if you want to use Google's services the rules about what you can and can't do ... and they did ... a lot within ... the start of trading with any implement the they read the manual to read the rules and is here to ... shocking ... okay ... I'm shocked I'm shock has so many can read the rules and I was implemented ... but for them ... in fact if you look at if you look at Facebook ... if you look at Facebook the action needed a very important point to remain completely applications ... this shows you the power ... of the PA Farm it has been though I think it's a tremendous endorsement of who will play an away win so that's why one of the year notifications on your own screen you may speak to Facebook about that ... write ... to ... Rolfe Winkler from the Wall Street Journal Your interviewed by Walton chair at the ninety second Street Y a few months back you're talking about the four horsemen of the Internet ... Apple Amazon ... Mike soft in Facebook ... next up was inevitable I ... think it is always me ... aam ... question why is it you're at the gas you ... if you can run one of those companies which would it be and use a nap she asked why he says because of the cash ... my question for you is ... what would you do with the catch ... I won't fall out of a parent I want to layer with companies and FMI spending ... Apple's he said if you could run ... into those four companies it wasn't a will ... you'd be Apple and wine he said because the huge pile of catch up I said because I've been on the board of Apple very fond of Apple ... and that's why really answer the question ... um I haven't uses the he said the cash but I actually I instead I did answer the question you walk through it ... um ... what I do really think about tech tech companies in cash ... is that ... there's a point which you have enough to ... um that you need to either start investing the stuff for lower prices ... because of the new catnip tech machines are generating a lot a cow ... um it's good to me all this cash piling up on all these companies can if you look finally everyone of them is piling up lotsa lotsa can have ... that's a missed opportunity for investment ... in Apple's case I think I have to be there to release him understand ... but as part of ways to soak up once cash in on the sides giving up your specific investment recommendations for Apple and I think I think I think I'll focus on who think that ... if ... how are things with Apple I mean you are on the board then you know obviously it because the more competitor left ... is is there more dialogue these days so of course will ... persist member Apple will have a big part of SharePoint search has lots of money being made between the two companies on ... on certain with the mobile explosion that occurred we seen ... tremendous success ... out with maps of course we basically ... told them we really like in use maps ... they decided not to do with Alumina like these maps we really like them to still use our maps ... indeed as though I mean I think you know we talk about it like you know ... one of the consequences of Apple ... you know doing their own masses we finally got the Google Maps as big as I O s users that we wanted without the turn by turn we got all the things ... that we wanted why why did Apple have to do their own maps for us to get the Google maps that we won in the first things you'll need Ask Apple accretion ... from our from our perspective ... we really want them to use our maps with all those ... directions so so ... we're happy that you don't have that as an app to be easy for them to take ... the efforts in the store and that is a bit ... but so ... often ... um so first like to see ... stuff ... from slipper for some like to see thank you ... aam for for anything that goes on to change the world and continue to innovate even at the skill in sizing guys are ... the single question ... um can you share your thoughts on the connected home ... cool TV in and really the connected home in on expects ... on any room in a year ago it started talking about the vision of the Android as a platform ... on ... that was more than just mobile phones equipped with and talking about songs but Android is ... now showing up everywhere you printers and ... televisions and things like that ... make me be venture lots of other consumer devices ... to the Pacific or ideas think about ... pure Weisel configured ... to which you really want is you want when the device comes into a local network you what you want to self configuring a wanna be sitting there ... you re saying Olam Joinus network in this is with us and so forth ... the so the classic example if you walk into your room ... aam and because it's because it's bigger normal behavior he realizes that you want your text messages on your phone ... to show on the TV were not been in with your other people so far ... and we can do all of that now ... so enter is powerful enough and has enough sense the information ... that we can have very very useful than exploration connected devices ... and the principal months riding with this with its automatic self configuring is something that can can occur which in any device ... it any of the Consumerist EP based devices ... and almost everything we use now has a computer in some idea of or were never ... more than six inches from us from integrated circuit is no ... better reason was that this is a lot of them we use first Vanguard ... a lot of the verses I'm describing will not be fully and right ... now was not the will to run the app store so for didn't have enough computation ... of the data networking stack and that some leaders display now ... thank you ... I ... by Eric Flint still not national ... um ... in the aftermath of the Boston bombing you guys launched the person find a new widely praised for it and I started to think that ... you're the only way in which something like that can work is using Goebel signals ... which are very important for search and in everything he know about us ... so ... obviously he has also some from a lot of criticism for those same things and I feel like you are Hold up to a double standard ... that ... Google is praise when it does something with the tools it has in hand and then David Dana but he says are invading our privacy ... and yell you're trying to ... steal or inflation so what what does it take ... to change that perception what is is as you keep saying you talk here ... universe the abuses human nature ... or is it some point people realize or don't realize of Google's true nature ... I think you're the question and a complement ... um ... you know ... if the if you look of privacy people have a lot of concerns about privacy ... and a lot of examples of companies that violate people's privacy um they also feel that ... of their expose on line for whatever reason so ... I think that the criticisms are well intended ... and the best answer though I can come up with this to say what we do and why we do it ... and um ... I'm not sure how to answer entropy on that ... I'd I don't think that privacy concerns in no way I think that they're going to continue ... and investing the week to say look to share thing about privacy you to know what you're doing we have to be very careful about security ... um ... and we have to be very clear as to what were doing why were doing at ... any estimates answer some basic ... and it's easy to say ... it's easy to say you know make this type of Apple customize this is of the system works ... I'm much more concerned not about oversight cool but Rocha third party companies that come in and do things which really upset the perception of the industry's a whole ... um ... I don't go to bed the well run companies try to include most of the leaders here ... actually do have a lot legal team's PR teams is a lot of time thinking about these things ... and we can debate their decisions but the fact that matters their fall through ... other regulated their attempts that they're trying very hard to be legal so focus on ... UB mention lots of other companies write ... to come in assertiveness use this information to create a bad thing for her but ... ultimately ultimately in industries to sort this out as the mentor ... and were still changing so quickly in these devices or so and so so very empowering ... and it was fairly snow ... I am too much or from Coleman fully ... with all the advances that tools made and technology ... in you mention them ... Moore's Law with advances in the same computer power ... what can you do what what is going to make any efforts in basically the a ... the other part of our phone which is the battery in the energy in ... aam ... are the investing anything are investigating developing ... aam ... who we we don't have anything specific in the Cyprus some investments I know that our partners to make the phone to spend a lot of time on battery life ... um the simplest way you do this if you have a useless signal so resembling Android ... not only does it allow you to shut down parts of the new boss to show you how much bandwidth for using and so forth and operatives like that ... so the more clever about the scarce resource that is our on your phone ... is the primary reason why with innings of no longer batteries ... the new generation of chips us to the ARM chips in on the new generation of of Intel chips ... are designed very much to be on battery efficient for that ... reason ... aam ... the best of the stated that there are lots lots of venture firms are working on new variants of lithium batteries ... aam and error last time I counted roughly ten different variants of lithium none of which I understood ... um ... BT which has different potential for properties it's a slow cycles very different from our world ... I should mention that when Moore's law ... it is a lot of people who've been looking at with how much longer more small will will continue ... that interest is the mantra terse conference report that one to disintegrate creepy scale ... um and the consensus is that we're sort of on the ending of that period although it's not ended yet ... but at some point some number of years from now ... this amazing engine that's been driving all of this will in fact slowdown and or technical reasons for that ... most involving power ... and heat ... not as much as this recipe ... humans in the Intrade is going you know to this next you know billion devices in a very short time frame ... you know I think it's a great time to blog look an entry vessel with what he think Intrade has done really well and and where the biggest opportunities for us what more can these devices do ... on that they don't do today ... well the story will be what apps too ... so think of as a platform ... and as a platform that offers a pretty complete now you can pretty much two ... amazing apps on this these devices ... and so we talked a little self configuring nature and set things the estimate comes as naturally as extensions of the platform ... but aside from that it's gonna be apps apps apps in these are both based in all five apps wrapped up ... as well as native needed to house ... and again you know I think that's the fact the matter is he going to start today ... the developing for enjoy them on from ... right to different operating systems Division one which is ... and then they have back and services which are running on some form of of of all ... what about the physical device how likely do you think is a need today is pretty much of the vault within ... big screen Saab of class ... did is that ... is that the and standard you think a couple years from now which is flexible displays some will will the phone look really different fears are there many people working on new kinds of hardware there we we've all to this end of sixth in last place ... because the primary cost driver battery driver so forth was in fact the screen ... and ... the is a lot of evidence people of the sky spans the ... Pistons are going to the point where the visual density ... is essentially perfect for my perspective ... um so be on that on the show will speak into ... more flexible different forms different shapes and so forth ... so will see that in in law of Assisi on lots of wearable computing and lots of research in the last decade ... of what would wearable computing look like ... vocal class came out of that research will be other kinds of things you think we wanna watch this is a lot of talk well with too many people suffering losses because they had to fall so now the question is will the watch the powerful enough that you want to use your phone all the time ... of the insight that I would offer is a simple class and the ability to speak to a new polity of the speakers as the Dick Tracy walk you can speak to ... all wondered Mayo clinic Rochester Minnesota there's all sorts of things happening in health care as we're all aware ... interesting things going on I was intrigued by air comments about remote monitoring ... where do you see those partnership opportunities what you think or the key players that need to be involved in those conversations and how we make that happen ... um ... most of the full focus on health rights he um within the Mayo is so a lot going on and ... has been around cost auctioned delaying system rising medical treatment so forth ... within the hostel sequences system in in the ALP's sequence ... up and the board to continue for people like myself it looks like a ninety problem you know big computers lots of data ... of you know highly regulated to the purposes of things ... there is a much larger explosion is going to be ... it happening ... which is on the medical device monitoring ... his interest or more patches other things which are non invasive ... that you where you ingest you paint on yourself and so forth which then speak to the phone ... um there are many many manufacturers that are making small bundles you can plug into the phone the specialist ... medical receivers are so that they pay packages literally plug into ... of the USB port on the phone ... and off you go ... the phone then becomes the staging area for the information ... for real-time information both ways ... so you know real time monitoring of your heart to that of all sorts of examples like this coming ... and this all happened very fast this is an area relatively less regulation ... is more costs for consumer app wrong ... also the market has not been RiverPark descriptions of people can just go buy things ... centers ... 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